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Books About War That Focus on Civilian Lives
Books About War That Focus on Civilian Lives
by book_guy  • 
In common: Brotherless Night
A siege can turn collecting water into the day’s most dangerous job. Occupation can change what it means to share a room, keep a diary, or care for a stranger. These novels, diaries, memoirs...
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Novels That Tell a Life Out of Order
Novels That Tell a Life Out of Order
by book_guy  • 
In common: The seven moons of Maali Almeida
The order in which we learn about a life can change what we think happened. These novels use returns, reversals, competing recollections or literal jumps through time to make that difference felt...
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Novels That Blend Comedy and Heartbreak Without Forcing Either
Novels That Blend Comedy and Heartbreak Without Forcing Either
by book_guy  • 
In common: The seven moons of Maali Almeida
People do not stop being funny when life becomes difficult. Their habits, awkward conversations and attempts to keep things going can become more revealing under pressure. These 25 novels earn...
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Asian-Inspired Fantasy With More Than a Decorative Setting
Asian-Inspired Fantasy With More Than a Decorative Setting
by book_guy  • 
In common: The seven moons of Maali Almeida
A convincing fantasy world gives people more than striking scenery to move through. These 25 books make family obligations, religious ideas, political institutions, everyday practices or the...
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Fantasy Rooted in Folklore Beyond the Familiar European Shelf
Fantasy Rooted in Folklore Beyond the Familiar European Shelf
by book_guy  • 
In common: The seven moons of Maali Almeida
These 30 novels turn particular storytelling traditions into new fiction: Korean Shim Cheong, Persian Sufi poetry, Lipan Apache animal-people stories, Métis rougarou accounts and many others. The...
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Migration Stories About What People Bring With Them
Migration Stories About What People Bring With Them
by tv_binger  • 
On a similar theme
A move can change an address without neatly replacing a language, a memory or an idea of home. These series approach migration from different positions: flight and resettlement, work and family...
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International Crime Fiction That Opens Up the Detective Shelf
International Crime Fiction That Opens Up the Detective Shelf
by book_guy  • 
In common: The seven moons of Maali Almeida
These books change the questions a crime story can ask: who is allowed to investigate, whose testimony counts and what a solved case can repair. They range from collective police work to domestic...
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Historical Fiction Beyond the Second World War Shelf
Historical Fiction Beyond the Second World War Shelf
by book_guy  • 
In common: The seven moons of Maali Almeida
Historical fiction offers far more than one war or one continent. These novels range from classical Athens and Pompeii to Ming China, Mughal India, East Africa, the Americas and the Pacific, with...
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Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
Books Everyone Should Read at Least Once
by book_guy  • 
In common: The seven moons of Maali Almeida
Treat this as a set of doors into different kinds of reading. Familiar novels sit beside translated fiction, memoir, poetry, science and stories told in pictures, chosen for a memorable voice, an...
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Chinese-Language Fiction From Different Places and Traditions
Chinese-Language Fiction From Different Places and Traditions
by book_guy  • 
More from book_guy
Start with The Borrowed if you want detective fiction that moves backward through decades of Hong Kong history. For a different way into a city, try Notes of a Crocodile, with its Taipei students...
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Books Like Fourth Wing for Dragon Riders & Deadly School Fans
Books Like Fourth Wing for Dragon Riders & Deadly School Fans
by book_guy  • 
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If you finished Fourth Wing wanting another dragon and rider whose lives are bound together, start with Fireborne or To Shape a Dragon’s Breath. If you miss the feeling that making it to...
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Shel Silverstein Books for Curious Kids & Read-Alouds
Shel Silverstein Books for Curious Kids & Read-Alouds
by book_guy  • 
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You can read Shel Silverstein for the jokes, the odd little creatures, or the questions he leaves hanging after a story ends. Start with A Giraffe and a Half if your listener likes to guess the...
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Historical Novels About Migration and Making a Home
Historical Novels About Migration and Making a Home
by book_guy  • 
On a similar theme
Arrival is only one part of making a home. These novels stay for the rented rooms, unfamiliar workplaces, changing languages and relationships that relocation puts under pressure. The routes...
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Novels Told by Children That Let Adults Read Between the Lines
Novels Told by Children That Let Adults Read Between the Lines
by book_guy  • 
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A child can give you an exact account of a room, a conversation, or a set of rules and leave you to realize what it means. These novels use that gap in different ways. Start with Paddy Clarke Ha...
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Books for People Who Love Complicated Families
Books for People Who Love Complicated Families
by book_guy  • 
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A good family novel gives everyone reasons, even when those reasons cannot be reconciled. These books follow siblings, parents, children and people made kin by care, with particular attention to...
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African Fantasy That Opens Up Different Kinds of Worlds
African Fantasy That Opens Up Different Kinds of Worlds
by book_guy  • 
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Lagos can be full of fallen gods, Mombasa can open onto a sea of monsters, and an invented empire can build its power by deciding which histories may be told. This selection follows African...
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Novels That Make Place Feel Like a Living Presence
Novels That Make Place Feel Like a Living Presence
by book_guy  • 
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A street can divide neighbours, a river can carry a family history, and a new route can change what a landscape is for. These 30 novels give place that kind of consequence. Their settings shape...
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Novels Where Different Voices Change the Story
Novels Where Different Voices Change the Story
by book_guy  • 
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A change of speaker can change what counts as the problem. These novels give different accounts and perspectives room to expose conflicting loyalties, private needs and unequal power. Some...
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